On the last night of the Todos Santos Music Festival in Baja, where a developer is building a huge resort on the beach, Buck told the crowd, “What has gone on in this town for the last two years ia a f - - king crime.”

Buck said, “This town is not owned by crooked politicians or sleazy developers. This is your town. So wake up . . . Take it over.”

The next day, Buck fled for parts unknown. “The Buck did not stop here,” Rex Weiner — Buck’s friend and longtime Todos Santos, Mexico, resident — told me. “Peter heard he was about to be served with legal papers [for speaking out]. In this country, you are guilty until proven innocent.”

Weiner, a founding editor of High Times magazine and investigative reporter for Capital & Main, said, “Rolling Stone totally missed the story.”